Motivational Quotes

Action

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

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

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Company, Lanes

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

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Howells, William Dean

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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, English

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Courteline, Georges

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

20.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Bible

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The only way to start is to start.

25.

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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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.

32.

Do it now. Then it's done.

33.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

34.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Act, don't react!

46.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David