Motivational Quotes

Action

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Action

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

James, William

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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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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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.