Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Bible

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

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ross, Percy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The only way to start is to start.

11.

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

12.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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

Holtz, Lou

14.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

19.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

20.

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

Rogers, Will

21.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

24.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

25.

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

Iacocca, Lee

26.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

30.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

31.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

33.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

34.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

35.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Proverb, French

42.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

43.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Green, Dennis

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel