Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Lu Xun

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Aikman, Leo

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 is character.

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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 only way to start is to start.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Sandburg, Carl

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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.