Motivational Quotes

Action

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

- Holcomb, John H.

Best Quotes about Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

13.

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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

20.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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