Motivational Quotes

Action

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lord, Shirley

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Wanamaker, John

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Angelou, Maya

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Act, don't react!

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell