Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Evans, Richard L.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Mexican

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

James, William

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