Motivational Quotes

Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William