Motivational Quotes

Action

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

- Movie, Cool Runnings

Best Quotes about Action

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

James, William

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Einstein, Albert

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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 act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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 isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Macdonald, George

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Act, don't react!

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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