Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Lowenstein, John

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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 soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

14.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

16.

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

17.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

20.

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

Greene, Robert

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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

22.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

24.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Gide, Andre

26.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

30.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

31.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

32.

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

Smith, Liz

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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