Motivational Quotes

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

James, William

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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