Motivational Quotes

Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

Smith, Liz

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Lu Xun

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

Hubbard, Kin

Act, don't react!

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

22.

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

Riley, Pat

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.