Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Ziglar, Zig

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Lu Xun

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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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

11.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

12.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

13.

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

Mann, Horace

14.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

15.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

20.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Action is character.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

28.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Carrel, Alexis

33.

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

Auerbach, Red

34.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

40.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

41.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam