Motivational Quotes

Action

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

10.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

11.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

13.

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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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

15.

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

16.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

18.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Action is character.

20.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

21.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

25.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

26.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

27.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

31.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

33.

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

Galsworthy, John

34.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Act, don't react!

38.

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

39.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

40.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

41.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

42.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

43.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

45.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

46.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

47.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

48.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

49.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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