Motivational Quotes

Action

Talk doesn't cook rice.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Wilde, Oscar

Do it now. Then it's done.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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

11.

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

Riley, Pat

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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

15.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Allen, Loius A.

17.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

18.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

27.

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

28.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

29.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

30.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

31.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

32.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

33.

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

Saunders

34.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

42.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

43.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Levi, Peter

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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