Motivational Quotes

Action

Let us be tried by our actions.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Action

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

Adams, Charles Francis

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Holtz, Lou

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Milea, Jinx

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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

11.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

13.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

14.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

15.

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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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

24.

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

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Buffett, Warren

30.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is character.

32.

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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

35.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Smith, Liz

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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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 view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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.

50.

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