Motivational Quotes

Action

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

- Byrhhe, Anne

Best Quotes about Action

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

Milne, A. A.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

11.

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

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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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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

18.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

19.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

20.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

28.

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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Wordsworth, William

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.