Motivational Quotes

Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

- Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Best Quotes about Action

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ovid

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

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