Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want to get along, go along.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Action

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

Arendt, Hannah

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

James, William

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Bible

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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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

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, German

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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