Motivational Quotes

Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gerstner, Lou

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb, Chinese

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

11.

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

12.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

18.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Viscott, David

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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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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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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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'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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Action is character.

30.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe