Motivational Quotes

Action

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

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.

The only way to start is to start.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

12.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

13.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

18.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Heine, Heinrich

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

23.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

26.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Gide, Andre

34.

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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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Angelou, Maya

39.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

40.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.