Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

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

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Warford, Rita

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Gide, Andre

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia