Motivational Quotes

Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

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

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Act, don't react!

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sher, Barbara

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lu Xun

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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 real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Saying, Zen

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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