Motivational Quotes

Action

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

- Greene, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

19.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

29.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

35.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

38.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sandburg, Carl

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

46.

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

Angelou, Maya

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese