Motivational Quotes

Action

He who limps is still walking.

- Lec, Stanislaw J.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Roger, John

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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

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Proverb

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese