Motivational Quotes

Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

- Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Grant, Heber J.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holtz, Lou

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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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

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Iacocca, Lee