Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

James, William

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

13.

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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

15.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

18.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

21.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

22.

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

Macdonald, George

24.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

25.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

36.

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

37.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

38.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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

40.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

41.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

42.

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

James, William

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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

Byrhhe, Anne