Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whittier, John Greenleaf

Best Quotes about Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Einstein, Albert

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

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

Confucius

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Milne, A. A.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Macdonald, George

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich