Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

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

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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

Adams, Charles Francis

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.