Motivational Quotes

Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

- Curcio, Joan L.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Act, don't react!

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holtz, Lou

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

James, William

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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.

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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

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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