Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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.

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

Proverb, Ibo

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

James, William

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sandburg, Carl

18.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

21.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

27.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Greene, Robert

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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