Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

James, William

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

10.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

11.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

13.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

14.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

15.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

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

18.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

19.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

21.

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

22.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

23.

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

Proverb, German

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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

25.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

27.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

28.

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

29.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

30.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

31.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

35.

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