Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Do it now. Then it's done.

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Galsworthy, John

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

James, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

35.

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

36.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

37.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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

48.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish