Motivational Quotes

Action

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Action

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

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.