Motivational Quotes

Action

You will never win if you never begin.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Shirley, James

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

Saunders

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte