Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Lord, Shirley

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

James, William

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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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