Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Action

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Cass, Lewis

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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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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Troward, Thomas

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von