Motivational Quotes

Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

- Croce, Benedetto

Best Quotes about Action

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

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

10.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

11.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

13.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

14.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

18.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

19.

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

Lu Xun

20.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

21.

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

Proverb, Italian

22.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

24.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

25.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

26.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

27.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

30.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

34.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

35.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

36.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

43.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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