Motivational Quotes

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Liter, James

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

Pauling, Linus

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

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.

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

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Company, Lanes

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

James, William

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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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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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