Motivational Quotes

Action

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

- Magnin, Edgar F.

Best Quotes about Action

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Proverb, Italian

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, German

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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

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

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

James, William

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

James, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican