Motivational Quotes

Action

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

- Teekens, Inga

Best Quotes about Action

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Lord, Shirley

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

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Horace

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Saunders

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rohn, Jim

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

37.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Levi, Peter

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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

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre