Motivational Quotes

Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

James, William

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

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

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Riley, Pat

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

Marley, Bob

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

Gide, Andre

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Bible

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam