Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Troward, Thomas

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Holcomb, John H.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

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

Lord, Shirley

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Milne, A. A.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

26.

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

Cass, Lewis

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Ovid

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Saying, Zen

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African