Motivational Quotes

Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

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

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Proverb, Chinese

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Courteline, Georges

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Einstein, Albert

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Bible

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Bible

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

30.

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

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Italian

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Let us be tried by our actions.