Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auerbach, Red

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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

11.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Evans, Richard L.

13.

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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Arendt, Hannah

18.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

19.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Iacocca, Lee

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

29.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holtz, Lou

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Act, don't react!

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.