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 can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Croce, Benedetto

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Edwards, Edward

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Milne, A. A.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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 soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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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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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

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George