Motivational Quotes

Action

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Lu Xun

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Ennius, Quintus

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Marley, Bob

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Iacocca, Lee

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Proverb, Italian

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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