Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Lu Xun

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Act, don't react!

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Ibo

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Ross, Percy