Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

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

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Ziglar, Zig

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marley, Bob

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Horace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou