Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Howells, William Dean

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Marley, Bob

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Courteline, Georges

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

16.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

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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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sher, Barbara

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

30.

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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von