Motivational Quotes

Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hasselhoff, David

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Wanamaker, John

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

13.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

14.

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

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

18.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

23.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

Act, don't react!

34.

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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.