Motivational Quotes

Action

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

- Cass, Lewis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Green, Dennis

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Mother Teresa

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Wordsworth, William

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Lu Xun

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

Holtz, Lou

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, 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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee