Motivational Quotes

Action

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Ziglar, Zig

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Sandburg, Carl

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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The only way to start is to start.

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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