Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Plutarch

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Horace

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

Howells, William Dean

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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If you want to get along, go along.