Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, English

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

11.

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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

14.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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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

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Howells, William Dean

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Saying, Zen

41.

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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

43.

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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

48.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.