Motivational Quotes

Action

You will never win if you never begin.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Graffiti

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Company, Lanes

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.