Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

The only way to start is to start.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius