Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Auerbach, Red

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Einstein, Albert

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Holtz, Lou

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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 chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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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

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

Saunders

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Ennius, Quintus

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

27.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

28.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

James, William

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah