Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

Action is character.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Pauling, Linus

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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 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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Wanamaker, John

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Horace

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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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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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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 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 is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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The greatest step is out the door.