Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Batt, Al

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Angelou, Maya

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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

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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

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Liter, James

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Bible

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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

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.