Motivational Quotes

Action

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Riley, Pat

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, German

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Lord, Shirley

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

33.

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

Warford, Rita

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

40.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.