Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want to get along, go along.

- Rayburn, Sam

Best Quotes about Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Milne, A. A.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

James, William

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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 is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proverb, Irish

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Howells, William Dean

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Wanamaker, John

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Gandhi, Mahatma