Motivational Quotes

Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

- Marley, Bob

Best Quotes about Action

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Bible

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw 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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Ovid

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

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