Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

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

Rogers, Will

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mencken, H. L.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Einstein, Albert

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Bible

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican