Motivational Quotes

Action

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Action

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Adams, Charles Francis

10.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

11.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

12.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

Act, don't react!

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

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

17.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

19.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

20.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

21.

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

22.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

24.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

27.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Smiles, Samuel

34.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

35.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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One of the marks of a 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

38.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Confucius

41.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

44.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

45.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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

49.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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