Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't aim a duck to death.

- Boardman, Gael

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Milea, Jinx

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Macdonald, George

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Holtz, Lou

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Hubbard, Kin

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo