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

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Sher, Barbara

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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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

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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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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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Horace

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

Liter, James

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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