Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to make it happen.

- Greene, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Gracian, Baltasar

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Milea, Jinx

17.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

18.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

21.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Green, Dennis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

28.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Lowenstein, John

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

32.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

34.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

37.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

40.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

42.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

44.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

48.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges