Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Action

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

12.

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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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Saunders

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

20.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas