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

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

12.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

19.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

20.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

21.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

22.

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

Wanamaker, John

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smiles, Samuel

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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

28.

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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

30.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

32.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

33.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

37.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, 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.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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

40.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

42.

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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.