Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Macdonald, George

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.