Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Action

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Gide, Andre

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

Smith, Liz

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

10.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

11.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

12.

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

Pancoast, Mal

13.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

14.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

18.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Act, don't react!

20.

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

Marley, Bob

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Aristotle

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

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

27.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

28.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

30.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

34.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

42.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato