Motivational Quotes

Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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.

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

Green, Dennis

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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Saunders

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Smith, Liz

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Action is character.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon