Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Ennius, Quintus

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Warford, Rita

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Proverb, American

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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 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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The best way to get something done is to begin.