Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Bible

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Eliot, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Carrel, Alexis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Act, don't react!

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie