Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Graffiti

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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 don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Holtz, Lou

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

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Act, don't react!

15.

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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Smith, Liz