Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Action

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

Do it now. Then it's done.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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 greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The only way to start is to start.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George