Motivational Quotes

Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Best Quotes about Action

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Einstein, Albert

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Aristotle

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Lord, Shirley

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Einstein, Albert

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Proverb, French

27.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Proverb

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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

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

Company, Lanes

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

34.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Shirley, James

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Act, don't react!

41.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.