Motivational Quotes

Action

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Saunders

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Levi, Peter

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

10.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

18.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

19.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

26.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

27.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

28.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

30.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Lowenstein, John

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Sher, Barbara

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

39.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

49.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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