Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Act, don't react!

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The only way to start is to start.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

33.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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

35.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.