Motivational Quotes

Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Shirley, James

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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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

12.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

18.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

25.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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

30.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

36.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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 reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, French

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

50.

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.