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

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Greene, Robert

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Lord, Shirley

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Proverb, Italian

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eliot, George

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Riley, Pat

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Sher, Barbara

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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