Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

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

Ross, Percy

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Bible

11.

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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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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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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Saying, Zen

25.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

27.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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 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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth