Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Croce, Benedetto

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

James, William

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

19.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Courteline, Georges

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.