Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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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 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

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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 could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.