Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Croce, Benedetto

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Liter, James

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

18.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

19.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

20.

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

23.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

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

Ennius, Quintus

28.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

30.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

31.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

32.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

44.

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

45.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Allen, Loius A.

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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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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