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 soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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 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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Milne, A. A.

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Mother Teresa

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.