Motivational Quotes

Action

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

22.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

James, William

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lord, Shirley

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De