Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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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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

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aikman, Leo

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.