Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hasselhoff, David

Best Quotes about Action

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Horace

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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 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

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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