Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

James, William

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana