Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

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

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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Proverb

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Act, don't react!

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

33.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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

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

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Mother Teresa

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings