Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bergson, Henri L.

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

James, William

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Riley, Pat

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Saunders

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

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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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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