Motivational Quotes

Action

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Action

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb

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

Graffiti

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Green, Dennis

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Mother Teresa

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Crow, Trammell

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Ennius, Quintus

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.