Motivational Quotes

Action

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Action

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

James, William

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

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Batt, Al

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Horace

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Holtz, Lou

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Auerbach, Red

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Proverb

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Action is character.

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Proverb, German

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon