Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ross, Percy

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

Proverb

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

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

Bible

12.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

13.

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

14.

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

Pancoast, Mal

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

18.

Do it now. Then it's done.

19.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

20.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

21.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

22.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

27.

The only way to start is to start.

28.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

31.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

33.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

39.

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

40.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

42.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

43.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

45.

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

Milne, A. A.

46.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

47.

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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

49.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley