Motivational Quotes

Action

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Action

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

Wilde, Oscar

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Marley, Bob

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

19.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

21.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

22.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

23.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

25.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

27.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

32.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

36.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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

40.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

41.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

42.

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

Iacocca, Lee

43.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, French

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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