Motivational Quotes

Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

- Letterman, David

Best Quotes about Action

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

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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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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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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bible

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

33.

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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.