Motivational Quotes

Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Clapiers, Luc De

Best Quotes about Action

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

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Levi, Peter

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Horace

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Courteline, Georges

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Brown, Les

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Batt, Al

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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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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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman