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

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

Warford, Rita

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

10.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

11.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

17.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

30.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Green, Dennis

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

James, William

49.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin