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

Rohn, Jim

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

The only way to start is to start.

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Smith, Liz

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Holtz, Lou

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.