Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Graffiti

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

11.

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

James, William

12.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

13.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

14.

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

15.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

16.

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

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

19.

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

20.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

21.

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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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

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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

26.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Proverb, German

28.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

29.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

30.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

31.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

32.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

33.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

34.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

35.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Viscott, David

38.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

45.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

47.

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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.