Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, French

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

15.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Rohn, Jim

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

24.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

27.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

31.

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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

33.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

35.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Act, don't react!

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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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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar