Motivational Quotes

Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

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

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

31.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Bible

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

Lu Xun

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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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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

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ross, Percy