Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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 start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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