Motivational Quotes

Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Riley, Pat

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

Gide, Andre

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Proverb, German

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

James, William

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

Bible

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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

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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