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

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

James, William

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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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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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Bible

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl