Motivational Quotes

Action

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ziglar, Zig

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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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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

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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

Proverb, American

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, German

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Winning starts with beginning.