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

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.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Action is character.

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Auerbach, Red

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Company, Lanes

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett