Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

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

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Schmidt, Helmut

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

10.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Proverb, German

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

16.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

17.

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

Lord, Shirley

18.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

21.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

22.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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

25.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

28.

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

29.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

30.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

31.

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

32.

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

Picasso, Pablo

33.

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

Troward, Thomas

34.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

37.

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

Ennius, Quintus

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

41.

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

Proverb, American

42.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

46.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

James, William

48.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.