Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Batt, Al

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

17.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

28.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

32.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

33.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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