Motivational Quotes

Action

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

James, William

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Proverb, American

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Mann, Horace

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Lu Xun

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Quarles, Francis

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

44.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Lincoln, Abraham