Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Croce, Benedetto

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Mother Teresa

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Plutarch

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Ovid

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

Dyer, Wayne

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Ennius, Quintus