Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Milne, A. A.

Best Quotes about Action

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bowkett, Chris

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, American

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.