Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Allen, Loius A.

Best Quotes about Action

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

30.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Holtz, Lou

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Sher, Barbara