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

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Einstein, Albert

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Auerbach, Red

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Bible

11.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

28.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

29.

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

James, William

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

Heine, Heinrich

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

36.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Saunders

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

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

46.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.