Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Sandburg, Carl

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe