Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Action

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Riley, Pat

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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 don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Ross, Percy

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Aikman, Leo