Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bowkett, Chris

Best Quotes about Action

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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.

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

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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

11.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb

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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

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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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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

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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 activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

31.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Proverb, Chinese

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