Motivational Quotes

Action

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Action

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Bible

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Aikman, Leo

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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.

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

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

10.

The only way to start is to start.

11.

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

Saying, Zen

12.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

13.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

15.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mann, Horace

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

19.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

South, Bishop Robert

21.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

Buffett, Warren

23.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

24.

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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

26.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Havel, Vaclav

31.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

34.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

35.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

38.

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

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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

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

42.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

44.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

46.

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

48.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Courteline, Georges

50.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael