Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Hazlitt, William

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

12.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

15.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Cass, Lewis

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Troward, Thomas

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

34.

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

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

James, William

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.