Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The best way to get something done is to begin.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Bible

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Horace

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

Aikman, Leo

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Buffett, Warren

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent