Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Milea, Jinx

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Levi, Peter