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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Bible

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.