Motivational Quotes

Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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.

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

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, German

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean