Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Action

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Crow, Trammell

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Liter, James

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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

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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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

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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

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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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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

40.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sandburg, Carl