Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mann, Horace

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way to start is to start.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Macdonald, George

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

James, William

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

42.

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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Iacocca, Lee

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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