Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

- Whitefield, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carrel, Alexis

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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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

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sher, Barbara

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saunders

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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Ovid