Motivational Quotes

Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

18.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Action is character.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

28.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

32.

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

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

Aristotle

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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

44.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.