Motivational Quotes

Action

From small beginnings come great things.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Greene, Robert

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Horace

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.