Motivational Quotes

Action

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

- Rosen, Richard D.

Best Quotes about Action

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Clarke, James Freeman

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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 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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Eliot, George

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 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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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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