Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

11.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

12.

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

13.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

14.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

18.

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

Green, Dennis

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

25.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

26.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

27.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

30.

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

31.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

34.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

35.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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.

39.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

42.

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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

44.

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

Holtz, Lou

45.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible