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

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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

Bowkett, Chris

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

No rules for success will work if you don't.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

11.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

12.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

14.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

17.

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

18.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

19.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

20.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

21.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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.

25.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

Ennius, Quintus

27.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

30.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

31.

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

32.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

35.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

36.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

43.

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

44.

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

Confucius

45.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

47.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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

49.

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

Proverb, Italian

50.

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