Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about 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

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

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

James, William

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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

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

14.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

15.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

19.

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

20.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

21.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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

25.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

26.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

30.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rohn, Jim

32.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

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

Aikman, Leo

35.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

36.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

38.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

40.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

41.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

42.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

43.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

45.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

46.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett