Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Action

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.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Green, Dennis

11.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

27.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

33.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

41.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Cass, Lewis