Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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

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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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Holtz, Lou

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Mother Teresa

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Buffett, Warren

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Confucius

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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

41.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Bible

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want to get along, go along.