Motivational Quotes

Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Action is character.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Horace

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Confucius

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.