Motivational Quotes

Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Do it now. Then it's done.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

38.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ovid

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Picasso, Pablo

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene