Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Bible

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

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

13.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

14.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

16.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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

20.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

21.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

22.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

23.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

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

Milne, A. A.

25.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

26.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

27.

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

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

30.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

31.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

33.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

35.

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

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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.

37.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

40.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

41.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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

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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

49.

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

Liter, James

50.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe