Motivational Quotes

Action

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

- Thalheimer, Richard

Best Quotes about Action

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

11.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Horace

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Company, Lanes

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Saunders

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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