Motivational Quotes

Action

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Action

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Mother Teresa

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

Wordsworth, William

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Aristotle

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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 all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, English

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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

Confucius

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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

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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

Liter, James

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The only way to start is to start.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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.