Motivational Quotes

Action

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

- Graffiti

Best Quotes about Action

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Eliot, George

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Mencken, H. L.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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

11.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

12.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Pauling, Linus

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Smiles, Samuel

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Proverb

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

28.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

36.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Quarles, Francis

49.

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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.