Motivational Quotes

Action

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Einstein, Albert

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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 will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Ennius, Quintus

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

10.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

11.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

18.

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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

20.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

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

Proverb, German

22.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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

24.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

25.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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

27.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Cass, Lewis

30.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

34.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

35.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

38.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

39.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

40.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

41.

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

42.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

43.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

44.

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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Graffiti

47.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck