Motivational Quotes

Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

10.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

11.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

12.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

19.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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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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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

27.

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

28.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

The only way to start is to start.

31.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

33.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American