Motivational Quotes

Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

10.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

34.

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

Company, Lanes

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Milea, Jinx