Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Action

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

The only way to start is to start.

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

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Riley, Pat

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

23.

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

Warford, Rita

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

25.

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

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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

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin