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

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Cass, Lewis

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Shirley, James

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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Act, don't react!

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many have too much, but none enough.