Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Plutarch

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Howells, William Dean

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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

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

Bible

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Green, Dennis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Action is character.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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