Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Holtz, Lou

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

27.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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