Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Action

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Holcomb, John H.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rohn, Jim

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Act, don't react!

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, German

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Aikman, Leo

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

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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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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

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German