Motivational Quotes

Action

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

10.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

James, William

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

20.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

21.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Iacocca, Lee

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges