Motivational Quotes

Action

Action expresses priorities.

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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

11.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

12.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Green, Dennis

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

21.

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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

38.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

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

Pancoast, Mal

40.

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

Gerstner, Lou

41.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

42.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

43.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

44.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Riley, Pat

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

49.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often