Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Sher, Barbara

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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

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

Green, Dennis

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

35.

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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

44.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Ovid

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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