Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Action

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mann, Horace

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

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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

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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 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

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Chinese