Motivational Quotes

Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Clapiers, Luc De

Best Quotes about Action

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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Action is character.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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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

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Levin, James

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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

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.