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

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

Proverb, German

Action is character.

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

Holtz, Lou

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Irish

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Ibo

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von