Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

James, William

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 aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Proverb, Irish

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Act, don't react!

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.