Motivational Quotes

Action

From small beginnings come great things.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

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

Batt, Al

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Mother Teresa

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Macdonald, George

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Greene, Robert

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

Ovid

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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

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

Horace

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

Proverb, French

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Milea, Jinx

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Shirley, James

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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