Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

- Green, Dennis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

10.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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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

17.

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

Proverb, American

18.

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

Saunders

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

Jacobs, Joseph

20.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

22.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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

27.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

30.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

31.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

32.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

33.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Confucius

35.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

42.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Hutcheson, Francis

44.

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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

46.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Clarke, James Freeman

49.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

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