Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Ennius, Quintus

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

11.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

13.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

14.

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

Bible

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

18.

Act, don't react!

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

30.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

32.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

33.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

34.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David