Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Shirley, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

10.

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

11.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

12.

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

Carrel, Alexis

13.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

15.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

18.

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

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

25.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

26.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

27.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

32.

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

Quarles, Francis

33.

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

James, William

34.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

40.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

42.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

43.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.