Motivational Quotes

Action

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

- Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Action

Action is character.

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Schuller, Robert H.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, American

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Sher, Barbara

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.