Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Aikman, Leo

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Sher, Barbara

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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 world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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

Howells, William Dean

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid