Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Rohn, Jim

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

11.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

12.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

13.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

14.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Confucius

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

20.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

21.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Saunders

27.

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

Shirley, James

28.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

29.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

30.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Pancoast, Mal

33.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Evans, Richard L.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

38.

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

Liter, James

39.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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

Ovid

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

48.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

49.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas