Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Riley, Pat

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Croce, Benedetto

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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One of the marks of a 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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rohn, Jim

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

Townsend, Robert