Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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 don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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.