Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

31.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Bible

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

42.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Mann, Horace