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

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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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

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Company, Lanes

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The only way to start is to start.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al