Motivational Quotes

Action

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

10.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

11.

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

Confucius

12.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

15.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

16.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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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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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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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

30.

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

Saunders

31.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

33.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

34.

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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

37.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

38.

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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Collingwood, Robin G.