Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whittier, John Greenleaf

Best Quotes about Action

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Greene, Robert

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

10.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

12.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Pauling, Linus

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Aikman, Leo

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Croce, Benedetto

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Proverb, French

40.

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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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.