Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Smiles, Samuel

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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 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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

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

Confucius