Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aikman, Leo

Best Quotes about Action

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Levi, Peter

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

10.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

12.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

13.

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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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 sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

23.

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

Smith, Sydney

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

27.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

28.

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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The only way to start is to start.

30.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

31.

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

Lu Xun

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Hutcheson, Francis

38.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

39.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

46.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

49.

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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont