Motivational Quotes

Action

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

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

Green, Dennis

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Ovid

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Greene, Robert

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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