Motivational Quotes

Action

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Action

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Hutcheson, Francis

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

No rules for success will work if you don't.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Riley, Pat

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Dyer, Wayne

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou