Motivational Quotes

Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.