Motivational Quotes

Action

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Croce, Benedetto

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Einstein, Albert

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

38.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Proverb, American

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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