Motivational Quotes

Action

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

10.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

11.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

12.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

15.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

16.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

17.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

19.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

22.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

23.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

24.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

25.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Mexican

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

Action is character.

31.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

32.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

34.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

36.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

37.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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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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

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

43.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

44.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

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

Smith, Liz

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

50.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen