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

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

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

James, William

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

16.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

27.

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

Holtz, Lou

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, George

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

33.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

38.

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

Pancoast, Mal

39.

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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Proverb, Ibo

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.