Motivational Quotes

Action

What you are will show in what you do.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Action

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

James, William

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Green, Dennis

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Action is character.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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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.