Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Rohn, Jim

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aristotle

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buffett, Warren

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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.

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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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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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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

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von