Motivational Quotes

Action

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

- Nagarjuna, Siddha

Best Quotes about Action

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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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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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Eliot, George

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bible

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Act, don't react!

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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One of the marks of a 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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ovid

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Cass, Lewis

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

James, William

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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