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

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Lu Xun

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Levi, Peter

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Picasso, Pablo

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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