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

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

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

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.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dyer, Wayne

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Einstein, Albert

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Bible

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Levin, James

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

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Act, don't react!

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

Company, Lanes

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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