Motivational Quotes

Action

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Milne, A. A.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Green, Dennis

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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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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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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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Plutarch

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe