Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest step is out the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

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

Mother Teresa

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Horace

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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

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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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

28.

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

Proverb, French

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha