Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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.

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

Proverb, Irish

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Howells, William Dean

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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

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Rohn, Jim

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Evans, Richard L.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Ovid

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Cooley, Charles Horton