Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Action is character.

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

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

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

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

10.

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

Gide, Andre

11.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

12.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

13.

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

Hasselhoff, David

14.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

15.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Gerstner, Lou

19.

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

James, William

20.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

23.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

24.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

26.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

28.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

32.

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

Saying, Zen

33.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

35.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

38.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

39.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

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

Proverb, German

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

46.

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

47.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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