Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Batt, Al

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Warford, Rita

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Shirley, James

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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