Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Levin, James

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Mother Teresa

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Plutarch

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Proverb, English

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

28.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.