Motivational Quotes

Action

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Croce, Benedetto

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

Proverb, Mexican

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

11.

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

Pancoast, Mal

12.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

16.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

17.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

28.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

32.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

35.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

40.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

41.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston