Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Ovid

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Greene, Robert

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Croce, Benedetto

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

10.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

11.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

12.

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

Grant, Heber J.

13.

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

Brown, Les

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Confucius

31.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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

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

Mother Teresa

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Bible

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

Horace

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

46.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Bible

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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