Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Robbins, Anthony

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Levi, Peter

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Holtz, Lou

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ovid

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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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 bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Confucius