Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

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

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Plutarch

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

Ovid

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Einstein, Albert

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Smith, Sydney

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