Motivational Quotes

Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Carrel, Alexis

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Kin

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Viscott, David

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

11.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

12.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

16.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

20.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

22.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Proverb, English

24.

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

Lowenstein, John

25.

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

26.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

34.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

45.

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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Holtz, Lou

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.