Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

12.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

22.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

23.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

James, William

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Act, don't react!