Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Mandino, Og

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Batt, Al

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Mexican

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Gide, Andre

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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

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cass, Lewis

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pancoast, Mal

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont