Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Arendt, Hannah

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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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.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Levin, James

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Cass, Lewis

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Act, don't react!

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis