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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

12.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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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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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

30.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ross, Percy

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often