Motivational Quotes

Action

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

James, William

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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