Motivational Quotes

Action

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aristotle

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Cass, Lewis

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Courteline, Georges

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

10.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act, don't react!

18.

'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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

26.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

27.

Action is character.

28.

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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

30.

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

31.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

37.

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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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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

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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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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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.