Motivational Quotes

Action

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Action

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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

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

Proverb

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

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Brown, Les

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Proverb, Italian

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Eliot, George

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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