Motivational Quotes

Action

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Action

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

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, American

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

Buffett, Warren

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

11.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

12.

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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

15.

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

Mann, Horace

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

19.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

24.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Wanamaker, John

31.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

32.

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

33.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

35.

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

Aristotle

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

39.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Pancoast, Mal

41.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

44.

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

Bowkett, Chris

45.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy