Motivational Quotes

Action

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Howells, William Dean

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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

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

Saunders

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sandburg, Carl

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.