Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Action

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

Batt, Al

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Courteline, Georges

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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

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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

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

Graffiti

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

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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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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

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

Horace

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara