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

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

Holtz, Lou

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Graffiti

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Lu Xun

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Italian

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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