Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action is character.

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

Bible

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

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

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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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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Ovid

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.