Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Pancoast, Mal

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Company, Lanes

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Green, Dennis

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

Edwards, Edward

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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

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Rogers, Will

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Howells, William Dean

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Holtz, Lou

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion