Motivational Quotes

Action

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Action

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Saunders

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

James, William

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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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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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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Arendt, Hannah

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Shirley, James

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar