Motivational Quotes

Action

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

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

Proverb, Italian

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Auerbach, Red

14.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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

20.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

21.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

22.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

27.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

28.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

29.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Warford, Rita

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

Proverb

37.

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

Proverb, German

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

47.

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

Company, Lanes

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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

49.

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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.