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

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Bible

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

13.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

14.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

15.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

16.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

20.

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

21.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

23.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

24.

Do it now. Then it's done.

25.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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

29.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

30.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

31.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean