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

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Green, Dennis

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Bible

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Proverb

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Graffiti

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Dyer, Wayne

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

33.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

35.

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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

40.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

42.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.