Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Iacocca, Lee

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

10.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Croce, Benedetto

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

27.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Edwards, Edward

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

40.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French