Motivational Quotes

Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

- Schmidt, Helmut

Best Quotes about Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rohn, Jim

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Croce, Benedetto

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Smith, Liz

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Irish

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Sher, Barbara

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Arendt, Hannah

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.