Motivational Quotes

Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

10.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

32.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Mother Teresa

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Proverb, Italian

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

39.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

43.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

44.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto