Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Riley, Pat

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Hasselhoff, David

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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