Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 best way to get something done is to begin.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Act, don't react!

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

Macdonald, George

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

29.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Lu Xun

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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