Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the marks of a 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

Best Quotes about Action

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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Aikman, Leo

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Buffett, Warren

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Company, Lanes

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