Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Marley, Bob

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Hasselhoff, David

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Einstein, Albert

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

33.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mother Teresa

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Proverb, American

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

Gracian, Baltasar