Motivational Quotes

Action

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Shakespeare, William

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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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

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Gide, Andre

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Einstein, Albert

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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