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

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Shakespeare, William

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

James, William

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

James, William

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

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Bible

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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