Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Action is character.

18.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Carrel, Alexis

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Croce, Benedetto

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

23.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Evans, Richard L.

28.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

29.

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

30.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

31.

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

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Eliot, George

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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Green, Dennis

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

44.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Fichte, Johann G.