Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Schuller, Robert H.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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