Motivational Quotes

Action

Either move or be moved.

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

22.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Shakespeare, William

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

James, William

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David