Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

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

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Pancoast, Mal

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

12.

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

Pauling, Linus

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

16.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Milne, A. A.

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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

20.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

21.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

25.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

26.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

27.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Proverb, American

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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

30.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

35.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

36.

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

Buffett, Warren

37.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

43.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

44.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.