Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Action

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Courteline, Georges

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Howells, William Dean

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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The only way to start is to start.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Milne, A. A.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

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

Aristotle

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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.