Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Action

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Iacocca, Lee

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Smith, Liz

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One of the marks of a 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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

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

Horace

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.