Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dyer, Wayne

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

James, William

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

13.

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

Milne, A. A.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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 only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

19.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

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

Bible

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

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

Proverb, English

27.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

28.

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

Buffett, Warren

29.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Confucius

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

34.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

38.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

39.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

40.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

42.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

44.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard