Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Batt, Al

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Crow, Trammell

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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

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.