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

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Lord, Shirley

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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