Motivational Quotes

Action

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

- Clarke, James Freeman

Best Quotes about Action

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.