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

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

Milne, A. A.

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.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Green, Dennis

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

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

Levin, James

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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