Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Mexican

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Proverb, American

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

25.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Sher, Barbara

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

James, William

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.