Motivational Quotes

Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Action

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

11.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

Act, don't react!

15.

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

Proverb, Mexican

16.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

Buffett, Warren

18.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

19.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

20.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

21.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

22.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

23.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

27.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

29.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Pancoast, Mal

31.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Howells, William Dean

33.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

34.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

35.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

36.

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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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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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

39.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

40.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

42.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

44.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

45.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

46.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

47.

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

Bible

49.

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

Sandburg, Carl

50.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.