Action Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. |
| - Abigail Adams |
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| Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. |
| - Alfred Adler |
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| Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. |
| - Walter Anderson |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. |
| - Aristotle |
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| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. |
| - Aristotle |
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| After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The best way out of a problem is through it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Action is the antidote to despair. |
| - Joan Baez |
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| Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. |
| - James Baldwin |
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| If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. |
| - Charles Barkley |
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| Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. |
| - Edmund Burke |
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| As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. |
| - Andrew Carnegie |
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| Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. |
| - Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort |
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| I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. |
| - Confucius |
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| We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. |
| - Calvin Coolidge |
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| There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. |
| - Demosthenes |
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| Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Don't find fault. Find a remedy. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. |
| - Brendan Francis |
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| He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| Well done is better than well said. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. |
| - Charles de Gaulle |
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| An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. |
| - Arnold Glasow |
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| Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. |
| - Baltasar Gracian |
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| Never mistake motion for action. |
| - Ernest Hemingway |
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| Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. |
| - William Ralph Inge |
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| A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. |
| - Washington Irving |
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| One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. |
| - D.H. Lawrence |
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| I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts |
| - John Locke |
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| The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
| - John Locke |
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| The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. |
| - Peter Lynch |
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| There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| When deeds speak, words are nothing. |
| - African Proverb |
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| Talk doesn't cook rice. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| The first step binds one to the second. |
| - French Proverb |
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| Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. |
| - Italian Proverb |
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| Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. |
| - Jean Paul Richter |
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| Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. |
| - Anthony Robbins |
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| Action is eloquence. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Strong reasons make strong actions. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Men expect too much, do too little. |
| - Allen Tate |
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| We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. |
| - Frank Tibolt |
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| Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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