Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Confucius

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Smith, Liz

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Act, don't react!

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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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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ennius, Quintus

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Bible

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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