Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

James, William

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Aikman, Leo

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

10.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

Act, don't react!

14.

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

15.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

16.

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

James, William

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

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

Arendt, Hannah

26.

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

Greene, Robert

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One of the marks of a 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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

29.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

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

Allen, Loius A.

49.

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

50.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese