Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

No rules for success will work if you don't.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Marley, Bob

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Bible

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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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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