Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Act, don't react!

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

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, American

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Milne, A. A.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Crow, Trammell

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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