Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

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

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Act, don't react!

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

10.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

12.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

13.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

14.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

15.

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

16.

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

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

Ovid

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ziglar, Zig

24.

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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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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.

28.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

30.

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

Green, Dennis

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

33.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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

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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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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