Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

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

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Macdonald, George

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, 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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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Evans, Richard L.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Eliot, George

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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.