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

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Hutcheson, Francis

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milea, Jinx

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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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

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Act, don't react!

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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The only way to start is to start.

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

Evans, Richard L.