Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

James, William

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

Saunders

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aikman, Leo

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Brown, Les

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

Aristotle

10.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

11.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

15.

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

Levin, James

17.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Cass, Lewis

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

30.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

36.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Einstein, Albert

40.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

41.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Holtz, Lou

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Sandburg, Carl

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.