Motivational Quotes

Action

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schmidt, Helmut

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Roger, John

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

11.

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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

14.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

15.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

22.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

30.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

31.

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

32.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

Cass, Lewis

37.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

40.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

41.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

43.

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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Green, Dennis

48.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.