Motivational Quotes

Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

No rules for success will work if you don't.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

James, William

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

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Action is character.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Mann, Horace