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

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

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

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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

Ovid

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.