Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore 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

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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

18.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The only way to start is to start.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas