Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Picasso, Pablo

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Evans, Richard L.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

19.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Shakespeare, William

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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

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

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

34.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Shirley, James

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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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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

44.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Courteline, Georges

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.