Motivational Quotes

Action

Talk doesn't cook rice.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Einstein, Albert

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hubbard, Kin

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

James, William

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

37.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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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

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John