Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

14.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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.

Townsend, Robert

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

27.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

28.

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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

James, William

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

49.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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