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

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Einstein, Albert

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

James, William

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hubbard, Kin

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cass, Lewis

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Franklin, Benjamin