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

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Warford, Rita

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

Iacocca, Lee

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Proverb, English

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Horace

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James