Motivational Quotes

Action

To begin, begin.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Action

Act, don't react!

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

Ross, Percy

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Brown, Les

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Company, Lanes

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon