Motivational Quotes

Action

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

- Company, Lanes

Best Quotes about Action

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

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

Lu Xun

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Greene, Robert

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Shirley, James

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Act, don't react!

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

31.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Horace

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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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.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin 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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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