Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lord, Shirley

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

James, William

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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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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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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