Motivational Quotes

Action

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

- Holcomb, John H.

Best Quotes about Action

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Aikman, Leo

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

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

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Eliot, George

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shakespeare, 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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shirley, James

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Marley, Bob

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Graffiti

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.