Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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

Bible

Act, don't react!

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

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

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

Shirley, James

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mann, Horace

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Evans, Richard L.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, Chinese

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