Motivational Quotes

Action

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

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

Edwards, Edward

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

11.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

18.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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

22.

'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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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

25.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

28.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

31.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

32.

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

33.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Howells, William Dean

35.

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

36.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

38.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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

40.

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

Company, Lanes

41.

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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Action is character.

43.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

44.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

49.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.