Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

11.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

14.

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

15.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

16.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

17.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

18.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

19.

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

Macdonald, George

20.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

25.

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

Courteline, Georges

26.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

28.

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

29.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Aikman, Leo

31.

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

Company, Lanes

32.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

33.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

40.

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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

42.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

44.

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

Green, Dennis

45.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

46.

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

47.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

48.

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.

49.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph