Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Viscott, David

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Dyer, Wayne

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

One of the marks of a 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

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Riley, Pat

10.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

11.

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

12.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

13.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

14.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

16.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

18.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

24.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

25.

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

27.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

28.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Proverb, American

30.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

31.

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

Ross, Percy

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Shirley, James

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

Gerstner, Lou

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

40.

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

41.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

45.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen