Motivational Quotes

Action

Winning starts with beginning.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The only way to start is to start.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Ross, Percy

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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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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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Howells, William Dean

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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.

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Eliot, George