Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

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

Courteline, Georges

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Confucius

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

14.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

17.

The only way to start is to start.

18.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

19.

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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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

24.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

25.

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

26.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

27.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

30.

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

Croce, Benedetto

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

36.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

38.

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

Howells, William Dean

39.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

41.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

44.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Brown, Les

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