Motivational Quotes

Action

Many are called but few get up.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Action

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

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Do it now. Then it's done.

29.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

James, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Marley, Bob

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.