Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Heine, Heinrich

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Buffett, Warren

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Eliot, George

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon