Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

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

Proverb, Irish

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Adams, Charles Francis

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Plutarch

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.