Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Croce, Benedetto

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Einstein, Albert

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Holtz, Lou

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Milne, A. A.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo