Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

- Whitefield, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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

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.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

11.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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

13.

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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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Troward, Thomas

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

25.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Holmes, Marjorie