Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

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

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

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

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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