Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Milea, Jinx

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Proverb, Italian

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

10.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

12.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

14.

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

Lowenstein, John

15.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

18.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

21.

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

Plutarch

23.

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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

25.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

26.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

27.

Do it now. Then it's done.

28.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

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

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

41.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

44.

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

Rogers, Will

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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