Motivational Quotes

Action

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Shirley, James

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

James, William

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

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.