Motivational Quotes

Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

- Marley, Bob

Best Quotes about Action

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Croce, Benedetto

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

James, William

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Lord, Shirley

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

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Act, don't react!

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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Some will, some don't, so what!