Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Pancoast, Mal

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Marley, Bob

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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Action is character.

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

Buffett, Warren

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Proverb, German

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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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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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Smith, Liz

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally