Motivational Quotes

Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

10.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

11.

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

Ovid

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Howells, William Dean

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

17.

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

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

19.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

27.

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

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

32.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

James, William

36.

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

Eliot, George

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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.

40.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

41.

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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

44.

Action is character.

45.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

49.

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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett