Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Quarles, Francis

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

12.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

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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

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Milne, A. A.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bible

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted