Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Macdonald, George

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Roger, John

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

18.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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The only way to start is to start.

22.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

25.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Viscott, David

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

47.

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

Proverb, German

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Leap, and the net will appear.