Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Galsworthy, John

Best Quotes about Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

The only way to start is to start.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Do it now. Then it's done.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, English

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Saunders

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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