Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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.

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

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Confucius

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, American

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.