Motivational Quotes

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Croce, Benedetto

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Ross, Percy

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The only way to start is to start.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Eliot, George

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bible

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Act, don't react!

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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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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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.