Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Croce, Benedetto

Best Quotes about Action

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

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Ovid

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Act, don't react!

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Proverb, Irish

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Disraeli, Benjamin