Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

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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

11.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

14.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

17.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

18.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

21.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Smith, Liz

28.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Do it now. Then it's done.

31.

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

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

40.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

41.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

44.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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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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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert