Motivational Quotes

Action

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Action

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Warford, Rita

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

Picasso, Pablo

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Balzac, Honore De

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Green, Dennis

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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