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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Einstein, Albert

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

12.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

James, William

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Action is character.

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

Bible

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Auerbach, Red

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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'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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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Milea, Jinx

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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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

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

43.

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

Eliot, George

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mother Teresa

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]