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

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

Proverb, German

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Rohn, Jim

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Proverb, Italian

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Ovid

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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

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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The only way to start is to start.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Gracian, Baltasar