Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saunders

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

10.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Proverb, Irish

12.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Balzac, Honore De

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

17.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Bible

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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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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

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

25.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

27.

Action is character.

28.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

31.

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

Proverb, German

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

33.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

34.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

35.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

37.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

44.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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

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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.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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