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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Proverb, Italian

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

11.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

12.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

27.

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

28.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Company, Lanes

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Cass, Lewis

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

40.

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

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Proverb, Mexican

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston