Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

10.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

11.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

12.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

15.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

18.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

19.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

20.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

25.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

26.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

32.

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

Ennius, Quintus

33.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

37.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

38.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

39.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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

44.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.