Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Confucius

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Ovid

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Shirley, James

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Ovid

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Sandburg, Carl

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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