Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Bible

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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