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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace

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Action is character.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Shirley, James

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.