Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Shakespeare, William

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

James, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

10.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

18.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

25.

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

Company, Lanes

26.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

27.

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

28.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

34.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

35.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

36.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

37.

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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.