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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Brown, Les

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gide, Andre

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Howells, William Dean

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.