Motivational Quotes

Action

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James, William

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Bible

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Holtz, Lou