Motivational Quotes

Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gaulle, Charles De

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

14.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Evans, Richard L.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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.

25.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

26.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

28.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Proverb, French

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Green, Dennis

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

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