Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

29.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cass, Lewis

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.