Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Best Quotes about Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, American

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

James, William

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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Action is character.

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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

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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