Motivational Quotes

Action

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

- Hasselhoff, David

Best Quotes about Action

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

10.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

11.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

16.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

21.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

25.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

27.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

28.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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 stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is character.

41.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan