Motivational Quotes

Action

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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Best Quotes about Action

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Balzac, Honore De

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Auerbach, Red

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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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 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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Saunders

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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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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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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

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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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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Riley, Pat

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

Smith, Liz

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, American

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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