Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Brown, Les

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

James, William

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Pauling, Linus

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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.

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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 time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Milne, A. A.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Quarles, Francis