Motivational Quotes

Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bevan, Aneurin

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Aristotle

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Proverb, American

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

Milne, A. A.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.