Motivational Quotes

Action

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aikman, Leo

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Cass, Lewis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Saunders

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Proverb

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Milne, A. A.

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Action is character.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.