Motivational Quotes

Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

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

Ross, Percy

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Plutarch

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

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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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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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Confucius

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Bible

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Bible

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

38.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

39.

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

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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