Motivational Quotes

Action

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Action

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Levi, Peter

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

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

10.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

11.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

13.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Graffiti

18.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

25.

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

Courteline, Georges

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

33.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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

36.

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

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Saunders

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

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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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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

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Italian

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