Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

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

Brown, Les

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Robbins, Anthony

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

10.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

11.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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.

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

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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

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

Bible

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

25.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Horace

28.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Hasselhoff, David

36.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

40.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von