Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smith, Liz

Best Quotes about Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gaulle, Charles De

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

10.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

James, William

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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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

34.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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

Proverb, American