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

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

11.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

17.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

28.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

42.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

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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

46.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

48.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cass, Lewis

50.

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