Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bible

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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 truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

19.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

20.

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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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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

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

32.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

35.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Crow, Trammell

39.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

45.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Milne, A. A.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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