Motivational Quotes

Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Courteline, Georges

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

James, William

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

Proverb, German

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Ibo

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Sher, Barbara

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La