Motivational Quotes

Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

- Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Graffiti

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

Proverb, American

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Ross, Percy

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Hasselhoff, David

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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