Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lowenstein, John

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

10.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

13.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

14.

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

Bible

15.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

16.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

17.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Smith, Liz

19.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

20.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

21.

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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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

25.

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

Hubbard, Kin

26.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

27.

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

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

30.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

31.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

32.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

33.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

34.

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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

36.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

41.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

42.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

43.

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

44.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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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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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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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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

50.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara