Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Riley, Pat

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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 won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Einstein, Albert

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis