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

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

21.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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 speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

James, William

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rogers, Will

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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From small beginnings come great things.