Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Croce, Benedetto

Best Quotes about Action

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mann, Horace

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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

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

18.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

24.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

25.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

27.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

29.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

James, William

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

James, William

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Liter, James

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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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee