Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Action

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bible

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Iacocca, Lee

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

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

10.

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

Ennius, Quintus

11.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

12.

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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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

15.

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

Bible

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

18.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

19.

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

Hasselhoff, David

20.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Brown, Les

25.

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

James, William

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Viscott, David

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

34.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

38.

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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

41.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

42.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

43.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

44.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

47.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

48.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

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

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont