Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Grant, Heber J.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Ibo

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Lu Xun

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Brown, Les

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

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson