Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, English

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

13.

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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Wanamaker, John

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

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

36.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

42.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Grant, Heber J.