Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Proverb, Chinese

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

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

Sher, Barbara

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only way to start is to start.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Aristotle

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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

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Warford, Rita

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.