Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, French

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Greene, Robert

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Liter, James

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Bible

28.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

29.

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

Sher, Barbara

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

32.

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

33.

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.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

43.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

48.

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 search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo