Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Plutarch

18.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

19.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

20.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

21.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

24.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

25.

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

James, William

26.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

27.

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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

30.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

31.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

32.

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

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

35.

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

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

44.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

49.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George