Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Macdonald, George

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

Mann, Horace

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

James, William

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Lord, Shirley

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

35.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

41.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Riley, Pat

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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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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Act, don't react!

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von