Action Quotes - Page 18

• The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fall

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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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

  Leadership, Motivation, Rushing

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Justice, Rewards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

  Vaclav Havel

  Spring, Greatness, Important

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

  Aristotle

  Art, Choices, Inquiry

  Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.1,1093 (translated by Sir David Ross).

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• Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

  P. T. Barnum

  Promotion, Terrible, Happens

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• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Crazy, Life Changing

  Anatole France (1923). “The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book”

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• Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Power

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.95, e-artnow

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• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

  Ben Stein

  Motivational, Stars, Dirty

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Life Changing

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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  It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

  Miles Davis

  Change, Creating, Acting

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Inspirational, Thinking, Acting

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Philosophical, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do-so is more important than say-so.

  Pete Seeger

  Important

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• Speak little, do much.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Littles, Speak

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.244, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Realizing, Prove

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• Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivation, Waiting, Feels

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.

  Alan Cohen

  States, Fulfilled, Findings

  "The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Loving Fully, Living Freely". Book by Alan Cohen, 1993.

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• Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

  Wayne Dyer

  Behavior, Barometer

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your actions are your only true belongings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Belonging

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• Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Suffering, Idlers, Leisure

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

  Aristotle

  Courage, Philosophical, Brave

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• A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

  Georges Bernanos

  Wisdom, Inspiration, Doe

  Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

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• Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

  Indira Gandhi

  Acting, Small Steps, Prejudice

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