Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Action

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Troward, Thomas

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.

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

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, German

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

Hubbard, Kin

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Shirley, James

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Cass, Lewis

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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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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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Wanamaker, John

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle