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

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

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Levi, Peter

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Shirley, James

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Gide, Andre