Motivational Quotes

Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Action

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

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

20.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

28.

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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.