Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ennius, Quintus

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Plutarch

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Batt, Al

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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