Motivational Quotes

Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Rogers, Will

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ennius, Quintus

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Shakespeare, William

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Howells, William Dean

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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

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Holtz, Lou

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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