Motivational Quotes

Action

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

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

Howells, William Dean

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rohn, Jim

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.