Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smith, Liz

Best Quotes about Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

12.

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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

18.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, American

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

28.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

44.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Courteline, Georges

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German