Motivational Quotes

Action

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

27.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Grant, Heber J.