Motivational Quotes

Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Action

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Roger, John

19.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

27.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

32.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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 only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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

38.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

42.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

43.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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