Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Proverb, Chinese

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Bible

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

10.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

28.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

32.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

33.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

36.

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

37.

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

38.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

39.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

44.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

45.

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

Proverb, Italian

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.