Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

Be both the gardener and the rose.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

18.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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One of the marks of a 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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

25.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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

27.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

28.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

34.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

37.

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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

39.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

41.

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

Proverb, German

42.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

43.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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The view only changes for the lead dog.