Motivational Quotes

Action

Allow motion to equal emotion.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buffett, Warren

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Quarles, Francis

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Act, don't react!

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck