Motivational Quotes

Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

James, William

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Cass, Lewis

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Greene, Robert

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lord, Shirley

25.

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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Proverb

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Holtz, Lou

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Riley, Pat

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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.