Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Action

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

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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 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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Riley, Pat

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Auerbach, Red

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Warford, Rita

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald