Motivational Quotes

Action

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plutarch

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Be both the gardener and the rose.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Proverb, Chinese

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Einstein, Albert

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Ovid

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Ovid

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

28.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Eliot, George

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

James, William

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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