Motivational Quotes

Action

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

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

Howells, William Dean

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Saunders

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

15.

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

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

18.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

20.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Clarke, James Freeman

22.

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

Milne, A. A.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

33.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

35.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

40.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

41.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato