Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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