Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Cass, Lewis

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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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