Motivational Quotes

Action

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

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

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Courteline, Georges

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

27.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Angelou, Maya

29.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

30.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

33.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

37.

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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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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

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Smiles, Samuel