Motivational Quotes

Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Action

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer 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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marley, Bob

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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