Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Arendt, Hannah

Action is character.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Lord, Shirley

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Act, don't react!

35.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Rogers, Will

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

Macdonald, George

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Ennius, Quintus

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowkett, Chris

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.