Motivational Quotes

Action

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

12.

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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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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 your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

32.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

34.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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

Bible

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Balzac, Honore De