Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Troward, Thomas

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

16.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, American

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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 is character.

28.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Evans, Richard L.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

32.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Mother Teresa

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Auerbach, Red