Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schmidt, Helmut

Best Quotes about Action

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Smith, Sydney

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Graffiti

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Gide, Andre

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Courteline, Georges

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.