Motivational Quotes

Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gerstner, Lou

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.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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.

10.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

11.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Cass, Lewis

13.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

16.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Aristotle

18.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, American

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Act, don't react!

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

40.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

41.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.