Motivational Quotes

Action

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Rohn, Jim

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Macdonald, George

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

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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