Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Hubbard, Kin

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

11.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

16.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

20.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Bergson, Henri L.

41.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

42.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

45.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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