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

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Chinese

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

13.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Troward, Thomas

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Greene, Robert

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

29.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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.

Ching Ning Chu

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

33.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish