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

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hasselhoff, David

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

12.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

13.

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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

17.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

18.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

20.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

25.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Eliot, George

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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