Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Viscott, David

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

11.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

12.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

13.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

14.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

15.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

18.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

20.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

21.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

22.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

24.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

25.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

28.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

30.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

31.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

32.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

34.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

35.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

38.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

39.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

40.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

41.

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

42.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

43.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

45.

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

46.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

47.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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You have to make it happen.