Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Holtz, Lou

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

27.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Mother Teresa

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Holtz, Lou

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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