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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Lu Xun

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

17.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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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.

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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 are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Horace

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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