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

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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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

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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.

21.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

22.

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

Courteline, Georges

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

25.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Smiles, Samuel

28.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Mother Teresa

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shirley, James

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Howells, William Dean

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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

50.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von