Motivational Quotes

Action

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Action

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

One of the marks of a 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

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Howells, William Dean

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Italian

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Horace

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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