Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Cass, Lewis

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

18.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Bible

22.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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 gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee