Motivational Quotes

Action

Winning starts with beginning.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mann, Horace

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

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

Troward, Thomas

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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