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

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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.

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ovid

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

12.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

13.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

14.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

15.

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

16.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Viscott, David

19.

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

20.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

21.

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

Company, Lanes

22.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

23.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

24.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

25.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

29.

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

Saunders

30.

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

31.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

32.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

33.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

34.

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

Proverb, French

35.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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

37.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

38.

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

39.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

40.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

41.

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

Bible

42.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American