Motivational Quotes

Action

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Hasselhoff, David

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Bible

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell