Motivational Quotes

Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Action

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

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Smiles, Samuel

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Buffett, Warren

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre