Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Action is character.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Viscott, David

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Bible

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De