Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Iacocca, Lee

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Rogers, Will

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Green, Dennis

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis