Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Greene, Robert

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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.

10.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

22.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Howells, William Dean

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Ovid

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

43.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl