Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Company, Lanes

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, American

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

13.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Act, don't react!

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

Proverb, Italian

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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

41.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

49.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les