Motivational Quotes

Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

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

Horace

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

James, William

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

11.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Company, Lanes

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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