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

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

11.

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

Hasselhoff, David

12.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

13.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

Bible

15.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Proverb, English

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

Riley, Pat

27.

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

28.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

30.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

33.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

45.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

49.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie