Motivational Quotes

Action

You will never win if you never begin.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Schmidt, Helmut

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

10.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

11.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Company, Lanes

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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

20.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

22.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

24.

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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

27.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

28.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

29.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

35.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

36.

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

37.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

39.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

40.

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

41.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Levi, Peter