Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holtz, Lou

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Mann, Horace

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

10.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

18.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

19.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

32.

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

Proverb, English

33.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Holcomb, John H.

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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

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

44.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

49.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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