Motivational Quotes

Action

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

- Edwards, Edward

Best Quotes about Action

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lincoln, Abraham

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

11.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

13.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Bible

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Levi, Peter

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One of the marks of a 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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.