Motivational Quotes

Action

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Action

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

10.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

11.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

12.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

14.

Do it now. Then it's done.

15.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

16.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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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

19.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

24.

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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

27.

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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Iacocca, Lee

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

40.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

41.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.