Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Action

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

Brown, Les

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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

Holtz, Lou

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

South, Bishop Robert

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Company, Lanes

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Troward, Thomas

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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