Motivational Quotes

Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Action

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

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Bible

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

James, William

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Proverb, English

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma