Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holcomb, John H.

Best Quotes about Action

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Riley, Pat

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lord, Shirley

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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 character.

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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 world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.