Motivational Quotes

Action

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

12.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

15.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

17.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

31.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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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

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda