Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest step is out the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holtz, Lou

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

James, William

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

20.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

21.

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

Proverb, French

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arendt, Hannah

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

35.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Iacocca, Lee

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

46.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

49.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Proverb, Chinese