Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schuller, Robert H.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Action is character.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bible

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

Plutarch

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Green, Dennis

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Marley, Bob

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

36.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Confucius

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

44.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo