Motivational Quotes

Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Viscott, David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lowenstein, John

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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