Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Action

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

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Saunders

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Lord, Shirley

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Courteline, Georges

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Shirley, James

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

Confucius

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Gide, Andre

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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