Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Courteline, Georges

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Lu Xun

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

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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

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

Aikman, Leo

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Green, Dennis

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Sandburg, Carl

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North