Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Galsworthy, John

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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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 only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, German

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, French

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

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