Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Bronowski, Jacob

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

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

Green, Dennis

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

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Riley, Pat

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

43.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.