Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

Act, don't react!

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

James, William

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Roger, John

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Action is character.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Greene, Robert

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Ennius, Quintus

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Grant, Heber J.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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