Motivational Quotes

Action

Never confuse motion with action.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Bible

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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The only way to start is to start.

19.

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

20.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

21.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Courteline, Georges

30.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Act, don't react!

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

40.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

41.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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 am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

48.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Brown, Les