Motivational Quotes

Action

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Act, don't react!

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

24.

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

25.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Evans, Richard L.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, American

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.