Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Action

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Ziglar, Zig

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

12.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, Italian

17.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

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

Proverb, American

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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

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

33.

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

Pancoast, Mal

34.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

42.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

43.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Let your performance do the thinking.