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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Einstein, Albert

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

20.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

23.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

31.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

38.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

39.

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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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

41.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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

Smith, Liz

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

47.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Milne, A. A.