Motivational Quotes

Action

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Green, Dennis

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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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

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb, American

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Let your performance do the thinking.