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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Jacobs, Joseph

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Batt, Al

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Saunders

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

James, William

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

Gide, Andre

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Act, don't react!

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eliot, George

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

Bible

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.