Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holmes, Marjorie

Best Quotes about Action

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

10.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

11.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

12.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

14.

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

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, George

16.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

18.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

19.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

21.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

22.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Milne, A. A.

25.

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

26.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

29.

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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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

32.

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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

35.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

38.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

39.

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

Proverb, Italian

40.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

43.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

46.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Greene, Robert

48.

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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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