Motivational Quotes

Action

He who limps is still walking.

- Lec, Stanislaw J.

Best Quotes about Action

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

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

Act, don't react!

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

Bible

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

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

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

10.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

11.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

13.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

15.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

27.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bible

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

Proverb, American

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

33.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

34.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The only way to start is to start.

37.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

38.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Auerbach, Red

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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.