Action Quotes - Page 5

• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

  Peter Marshall

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, Emotions Feelings, Anxiety

  "To My Daughters, With Love (My Neighbor's Son)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Atheist, Prayer

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• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Heart, Thoughtful

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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• Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

  Ai Weiwei

  Change, Thinking, Chinese

  Interview with Katie Hill, www.tate.org.uk. October 12, 2010.

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• Success ... seems to be connected with action.

  Conrad Hilton

  Success, Perseverance, Mistake

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• Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspiring, Feelings, Acting

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 26, 2012

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• The end of man is action.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Ends

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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.

  George Herbert

  Motivational, Positive, Courage

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• Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Wisdom, Follow Your Heart

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• I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

  Henri Bergson's speech at the Descartes Conference in Paris, 1937.

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• The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

  Michael Josephson

  Anxiety, Despair, Way

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• Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

  Abu Bakr

  Useless, Martial Arts, Caliphs

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Men, May

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The only cure for grief is action.

  George Henry Lewes

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

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• A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

  Aristotle

  Tragedy, Ends, Middle

  Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1953). “Aristotle: the Poetics: "Longinus": On the Sublime. Demetrius On Style”

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• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Good Thoughts, Follow Through

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• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Commitment, Failing

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