Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Liter, James

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Proverb, German

28.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Viscott, David