Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smith, Liz

Best Quotes about Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Milne, A. A.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shakespeare, William

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

13.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

21.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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 odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

29.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

30.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

31.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

35.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

40.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

41.

'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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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.

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward