Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Greene, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Pauling, Linus

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

33.

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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Lord, Shirley

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

42.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Woolf, Virginia

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis