Motivational Quotes

Action

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Action

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

11.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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One of the marks of a 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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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Greene, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

43.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

Proverb, English

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

50.

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