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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

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

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, English

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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way to start is to start.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Act, don't react!

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Green, Dennis

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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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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

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.