Motivational Quotes

Action

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

- Hasselhoff, David

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ennius, Quintus

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Shirley, James

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

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Act, don't react!

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont