Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Greene, Robert

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

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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 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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Saunders

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Shirley, James

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Act, don't react!

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell