Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Arendt, Hannah

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Proverb, American

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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

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

34.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Saunders

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus