Motivational Quotes

Action

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, American

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Milne, A. A.

11.

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

Quarles, Francis

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Horace

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Holtz, Lou

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Pauling, Linus

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

30.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

31.

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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

42.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

43.

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

Company, Lanes

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

46.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.