Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

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

Horace

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

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

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

Marley, Bob

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Crow, Trammell

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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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

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Act, don't react!

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes