Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Action

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

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Action is character.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

10.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

James, William

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Marley, Bob

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham