Motivational Quotes

Action

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pancoast, Mal

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis