Motivational Quotes

Action

What you are will show in what you do.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Action

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Bowkett, Chris

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Do it now. Then it's done.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Angelou, Maya

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action is character.

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

Proverb, American

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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He who limps is still walking.