Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Confucius

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Horace

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

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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Shirley, James

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

Bible

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cass, Lewis

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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