Motivational Quotes

Action

Winning starts with beginning.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Picasso, Pablo

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Allen, Loius A.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.