Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bergson, Henri L.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Rogers, Will

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Do it now. Then it's done.

29.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Balzac, Honore De

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Macdonald, George

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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 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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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