Motivational Quotes

Action

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Proverb, American

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Ross, Percy

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John