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

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

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lu Xun

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

43.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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.