Motivational Quotes

Action

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

24.

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

Green, Dennis

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lu Xun

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Milne, A. A.

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

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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