Motivational Quotes

Action

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

- Eliot, Sir John

Best Quotes about Action

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Proverb, Chinese

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

11.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

12.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

19.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

20.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

21.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

23.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

26.

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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

28.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

30.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

31.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

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

James, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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

36.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

37.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

38.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

40.

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

Proverb, English

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

42.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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

44.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

49.

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

Carlyle, Thomas