Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want to get along, go along.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Action

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Do it now. Then it's done.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Howells, William Dean

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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