Motivational Quotes

Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.