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

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Confucius

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

10.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Lowenstein, John

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

15.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

16.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

17.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

18.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

24.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Ross, Percy

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

33.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

34.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

36.

The only way to start is to start.

37.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

43.

Collier, Robert

44.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

48.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald