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

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

Saying, Zen

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Greene, Robert

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Galsworthy, John

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The only way to start is to start.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.