Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

James, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Lu Xun

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Bible

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.