Motivational Quotes

Action

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

James, William

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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Act, don't react!

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

28.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

29.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe