Motivational Quotes

Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evans, Richard L.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Bible

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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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

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Green, Dennis

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Quarles, Francis

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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