Motivational Quotes

Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Shirley, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Warford, Rita

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Green, Dennis

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Mann, Horace

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

37.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Smith, Liz

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.