Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Shirley, James

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Marley, Bob

10.

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

Holtz, Lou

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

13.

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

14.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mother Teresa

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

25.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

26.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

32.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Act, don't react!

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

48.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao