Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Levi, Peter

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Levi, Peter

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Aristotle

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

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

11.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

12.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

15.

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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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

17.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

18.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

21.

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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

26.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

27.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

28.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

29.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Milne, A. A.

32.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

35.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

36.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

37.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

38.

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

Smiles, Samuel

39.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

40.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

42.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

43.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

45.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

46.

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

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

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