Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Action

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

Riley, Pat

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Company, Lanes

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lu Xun

10.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

11.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

12.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

13.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

20.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

21.

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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Act, don't react!

23.

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

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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

25.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

28.

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

29.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

30.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

31.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

34.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

35.

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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

40.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

41.

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

Ovid

42.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

43.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

44.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

45.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

48.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar