Motivational Quotes

Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel 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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Action is character.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act, don't react!

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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Roger, John

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael