Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gerstner, Lou

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.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Action is character.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Saying, Zen

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The only way to start is to start.