Motivational Quotes

Action

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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.

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

Proverb, Ibo

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

James, William

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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Action is character.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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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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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Schmidt, Helmut