Motivational Quotes

Action

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

- Liter, James

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Proverb, Italian

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Action is character.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Horace

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Shirley, James

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.