Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

11.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

15.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

20.

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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Greene, Robert

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

33.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Howells, William Dean

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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

36.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gaulle, Charles De

41.

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

Smith, Liz

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

45.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

46.

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

Marley, Bob

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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

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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