Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Pancoast, Mal

10.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

11.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

12.

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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Croce, Benedetto

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

27.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

28.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

43.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les