Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

- Ray, Marie Beyon

Best Quotes about Action

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Robbins, Anthony

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

12.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

15.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

18.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

19.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

23.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

27.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

28.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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