Motivational Quotes

Action

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

Best Quotes about Action

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Crow, Trammell

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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.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

14.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

15.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

16.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

18.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Bible

20.

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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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

23.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

Hazlitt, William

31.

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

Proverb, Mexican

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

36.

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

37.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

38.

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

39.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

40.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

41.

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

42.

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

43.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

44.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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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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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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman