Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Liter, James

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Proverb, American

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

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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

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

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sandburg, Carl

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.