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

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

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

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Action is character.

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

Shakespeare, William

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Howells, William Dean

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Riley, Pat

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Ovid