Motivational Quotes

Action

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

11.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

25.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

26.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

27.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

29.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

30.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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

32.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

34.

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

Proverb, English

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

39.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

40.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

41.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

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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