Motivational Quotes

Action

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Balzac, Honore De

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Eliot, George

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Saunders

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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 only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Rohn, Jim