Motivational Quotes

Action

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Proverb, English

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

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marley, Bob

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.