Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't aim a duck to death.

- Boardman, Gael

Best Quotes about Action

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Smith, Liz

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Proverb, Italian

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

12.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

15.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, American

19.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Action is character.

33.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

James, William

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

45.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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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

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

Levi, Peter

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.