Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hutcheson, Francis

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

12.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

13.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Wordsworth, William

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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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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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

27.

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

Ennius, Quintus

28.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

32.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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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

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

43.

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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

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

Lord, Shirley

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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