Motivational Quotes

Action

Winning starts with beginning.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bronowski, Jacob

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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 is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Arendt, Hannah

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act, don't react!

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert