Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Ovid

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Auerbach, Red

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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.

27.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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The only way to start is to start.

33.

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

Bible

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lu Xun

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gerstner, Lou

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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