Motivational Quotes

Action

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

12.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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

15.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

16.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

17.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

21.

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

Proverb, German

22.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

25.

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

Lord, Shirley

26.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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

35.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

40.

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

Heine, Heinrich

41.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

45.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

46.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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

48.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

49.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao