Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Action

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Holtz, Lou

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Ennius, Quintus

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Sandburg, Carl

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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