Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Eliot, George

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Balzac, Honore De

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

10.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

11.

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

Milne, A. A.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

33.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

37.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Ibo

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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