Motivational Quotes

Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Viscott, David

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Act, don't react!

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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

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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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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Proverb, Irish

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.