Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Croce, Benedetto

Best Quotes about Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Marley, Bob

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Ennius, Quintus

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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