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

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

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Adams, Charles Francis

Act, don't react!

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Proverb

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, German

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Mann, Horace

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas