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

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

Shakespeare, William

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Macdonald, George

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

Einstein, Albert

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Proverb, Chinese

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

10.

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 your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

12.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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 end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

24.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Howells, William Dean

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

33.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

44.

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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm