Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Crow, Trammell

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Aristotle

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smiles, Samuel

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Riley, Pat

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Eliot, George

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Evans, Richard L.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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