Motivational Quotes

Action

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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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

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

James, William

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Ross, Percy

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.