Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

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

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Riley, Pat

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

James, William

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

Proverb

10.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

12.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

13.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

23.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

24.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

27.

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

Saying, Zen

28.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

29.

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

Liter, James

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

31.

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

Ovid

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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.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

35.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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The only way to start is to start.

37.

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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

46.

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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah