Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bible

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Confucius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

24.

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

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

31.

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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

36.

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

James, William

37.

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

38.

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

Crow, Trammell

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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

43.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

47.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George