Motivational Quotes

Action

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Action is character.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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 shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

15.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Milne, A. A.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

29.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

30.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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

40.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

41.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

42.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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

49.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard