Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Sandburg, Carl

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

10.

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

Ovid

11.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

12.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

13.

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

Auerbach, Red

14.

Action is character.

15.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

17.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

18.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

19.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

20.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

22.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

23.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

27.

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

28.

Do it now. Then it's done.

29.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

30.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

31.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

33.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

34.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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.

36.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

37.

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

38.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

39.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

41.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

44.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

45.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.