Motivational Quotes

Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Action

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

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.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Holtz, Lou

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

16.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Macdonald, George

18.

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

Howells, William Dean

19.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

20.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Ovid

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

49.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Levin, James