Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Action

Act, don't react!

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Einstein, Albert

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Edison, Thomas A.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

23.

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

James, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

28.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

30.

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

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Holtz, Lou

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

41.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

45.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Roger, John