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

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aristotle

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

Smith, Liz

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Proverb, Italian

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman