Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lu Xun

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

Bible

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Act, don't react!

19.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Viscott, David

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

Hazlitt, William

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Company, Lanes

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

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Confucius

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.