Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Milne, A. A.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, American

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

Green, Dennis

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Batt, Al

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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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lord, Shirley

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.