Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Clarke, James Freeman

Best Quotes about Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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 world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

12.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Irish

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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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

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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Action is character.

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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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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Sher, Barbara

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Ovid

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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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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 dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John