Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, American

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Liter, James

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

Rohn, Jim

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Ovid

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

10.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

12.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

13.

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

Shirley, James

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

18.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

19.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

20.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

21.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

24.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

25.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

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

28.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

30.

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

Bible

31.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

32.

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

Courteline, Georges

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

35.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

39.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

40.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

41.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

42.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

44.

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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

48.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

50.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver