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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Saunders

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato