Motivational Quotes

Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Heine, Heinrich

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Milea, Jinx

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Viscott, David

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

Proverb, Chinese