Motivational Quotes

Action

Let us be tried by our actions.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Riley, Pat

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

43.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick