Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rohn, Jim

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Holtz, Lou

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Proverb, Italian

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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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

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle