Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

12.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Troward, Thomas

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

15.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

16.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

17.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

20.

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

Proverb, Ibo

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

26.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

28.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

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

30.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

31.

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

Mother Teresa

32.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

37.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

39.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

40.

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

Croce, Benedetto

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

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

48.

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

Holtz, Lou

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges