Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Action

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Balzac, Honore De

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Holtz, Lou

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Sher, Barbara

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shirley, James

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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