Motivational Quotes

Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Action

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

12.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

13.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

17.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

33.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

34.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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

43.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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.