Motivational Quotes

Action

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Proverb, American

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Company, Lanes

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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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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Act, don't react!

50.

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

Ziglar, Zig