Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Ross, Percy

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

12.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

13.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

14.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

15.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cass, Lewis

19.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

23.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

25.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

27.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Mann, Horace

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Iacocca, Lee

41.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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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

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Whitehead, Alfred North