Motivational Quotes

Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Evans, Richard L.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

10.

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

Crow, Trammell

11.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

12.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

14.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Milne, A. A.

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

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

19.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

25.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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

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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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Act, don't react!

36.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

39.

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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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

42.

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

Batt, Al

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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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von