Motivational Quotes

Action

He who limps is still walking.

- Lec, Stanislaw J.

Best Quotes about Action

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Act, don't react!

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

James, William

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

Viscott, David

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Bible

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Action is character.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Shirley, James

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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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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.