Motivational Quotes

Action

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Sandburg, Carl

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milne, A. A.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.