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

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

James, William

10.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

11.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

12.

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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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.

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

17.

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

Green, Dennis

18.

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

James, William

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

21.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

22.

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

Holtz, Lou

23.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

25.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

26.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

29.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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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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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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

33.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

38.

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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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.

43.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

44.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Arendt, Hannah

47.

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

Proverb, German

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

49.

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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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