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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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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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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

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Green, Dennis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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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

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

Lowenstein, John

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Act, don't react!

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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 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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often