Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Act, don't react!

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.