Motivational Quotes

Action

Many are called but few get up.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Action

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Aikman, Leo

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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.

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

Bible

10.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

12.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

15.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

21.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Warford, Rita

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

27.

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

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Howells, William Dean

33.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

37.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

42.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

43.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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