Motivational Quotes

Action

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bowkett, Chris

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Company, Lanes

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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.

19.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

20.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

25.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Warford, Rita

28.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Iacocca, Lee

35.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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