Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

James, William

11.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

23.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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.

36.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Riley, Pat

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.