Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Shakespeare, William

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only way to start is to start.

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

James, William

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

Batt, Al

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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 thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, 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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Bowkett, Chris

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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.

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

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert