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Welcome to Action Quotes, the best source for inspiring as well as motivational quotes from some of the world's most prominent people. Below you will certainly find quotes from well-known professional athletes, business owners, politicians, and much more, all created to help you reach your objectives and live a life of purpose. Whether you're looking for a quote to obtain you via a hard day or to aid you remain motivated, you'll find it here. So have a look around and also locate the excellent quote to help you take action and make a difference.
Small: Prayer is not an old womans idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument
Mahatma Gandhi
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
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Small: Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action
Benjamin Disraeli
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, co
Giovanni Morassutti
"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"
Giovanni Morassutti, Actor
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Small: Action conquers fear
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"Action conquers fear"
Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman
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Small: The ancestor of every action is a thought
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ancestor of every action is a thought"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
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Small: An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied
Arnold H. Glasow
"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"
Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman
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Small: There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action
W. Somerset Maugham
"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk
Seneca the Younger
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
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Small: It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
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Small: Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can ch
Joel A. Barker
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world"
Joel A. Barker, Author
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Small: With devotions visage and pious action we do sugar oer the devil himself
Thomas Fuller
"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
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Small: Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action
Samuel Smiles
"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action"
Samuel Smiles, Author
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Small: If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought
Indira Gandhi
"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying"
Indira Gandhi, Statesman
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Small: I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
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Small: A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement
"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement"
Bo Bennett, Businessman
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Small: Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics
"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics"
Jane Addams, Activist
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Small: Id probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious
Phil Heath
"I'd probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious"
Phil Heath, Athlete
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Small: Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid
Thomas Carlyle
"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder
Alfred A. Montapert
"Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny"
Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher
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Small: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction
Isaac Newton
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
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Small: While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history wit
Mattie Stepanek
"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"
Mattie Stepanek, Poet
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Small: Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the
"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama"
George P. Baker
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Small: Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility"
G. M. Trevelyan, Historian
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Small: An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitiv
Jack Welch
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage"
Jack Welch, Businessman
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Small: He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has
"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart"
William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician
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Small: Its sort of an action flick. You cant be that funny trying to steal diamonds
"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds"
Anthony Anderson, Actor
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Small: Pleasure and action make the hours seem short
William Shakespeare
"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
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Small: A man is not good or bad for one action
Thomas Fuller
"A man is not good or bad for one action"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
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Small: Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied
Arnold H. Glasow
"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"
Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman
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Small: Action expresses priorities
Mahatma Gandhi
"Action expresses priorities"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
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Small: I say that justice is truth in action
Benjamin Disraeli
"I say that justice is truth in action"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the
Friedrich Schiller
"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
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Small: Thought and theory must precede all salutary action yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theo
Virginia Woolf
"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction
John F. Kennedy
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction"
John F. Kennedy, President
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Small: However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and int
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
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Small: Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary
"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
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Small: Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions
"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
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Small: The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad a
"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action"
Learned Hand, Judge
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Small: Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers
"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers"
Learned Hand, Judge
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Small: But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure
"But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure"
George P. Baker
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