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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Holtz, Lou

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

13.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

15.

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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

18.

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

Crow, Trammell

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

23.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

25.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

27.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

28.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

30.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Ross, Percy

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

46.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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