Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Jacobs, Joseph

Best Quotes about Action

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Pancoast, Mal

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Galsworthy, John

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

11.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Green, Dennis

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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

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rohn, Jim

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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