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

Proverb, Irish

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

10.

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

11.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

12.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Riley, Pat

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

24.

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

25.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Smith, Liz

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

44.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, American

46.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Quarles, Francis