Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saunders

Best Quotes about Action

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Proverb

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Riley, Pat

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Action is character.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob