Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest step is out the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Gide, Andre

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sher, Barbara

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Mann, Horace

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Act, don't react!

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally