Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Letterman, Elmer G.

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Shakespeare, William

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, French

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

15.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

17.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

29.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

30.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

33.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is character.

37.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

38.

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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert