Motivational Quotes

Action

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Company, Lanes

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rohn, Jim

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

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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

Holtz, Lou

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.