Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Quarles, Francis

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John