Motivational Quotes

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Best Quotes about Action

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bible

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Ovid

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Bible

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

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Action is character.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Hasselhoff, David

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James