Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't think, just do.

- Horton, Reiko

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Lord, Shirley

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Smith, Liz

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Ovid

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Do it now. Then it's done.

22.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lowenstein, John

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Milne, A. A.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph