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

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Bible

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

James, William

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Proverb, German

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, 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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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

33.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Italian

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

James, William

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur