Motivational Quotes

Action

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

- Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hill, Napoleon

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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 easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smiles, Samuel

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

22.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

24.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

31.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

33.

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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

35.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Bible

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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

42.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

James, William

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.