Motivational Quotes

Action

Talk doesn't cook rice.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Mann, Horace

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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

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

Shirley, James

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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

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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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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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

Liter, James

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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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.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Company, Lanes

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Smiles, Samuel

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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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.

Letterman, David

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Einstein, Albert