Motivational Quotes

Action

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Batt, Al

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

18.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The only way to start is to start.

26.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Gerstner, Lou

34.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Cass, Lewis

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American