Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

One of the marks of a 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

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

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

Milne, A. A.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

14.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is character.

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo