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

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Kin

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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

11.

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

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Milne, A. A.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Einstein, Albert

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Aristotle

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, American

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston