Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

- Milea, Jinx

Best Quotes about Action

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

Warford, Rita

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Proverb, Ibo

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Holtz, Lou

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Roger, John

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Italian

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Milne, A. A.