Motivational Quotes

Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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

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

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

41.

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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Wordsworth, William

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur