Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Holmes, Marjorie

10.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

11.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Riley, Pat

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

22.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

23.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

24.

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

Pancoast, Mal

25.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eliot, George

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ovid

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

39.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.