Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Aikman, Leo

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Smith, Liz

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

Graffiti

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Act, don't react!

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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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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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

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David