Motivational Quotes

Action

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Bergson, Henri L.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

James, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, 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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

28.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Plutarch

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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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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

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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No one will do it for you.