Motivational Quotes

Action

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

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.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Lu Xun

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Aristotle

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

Mann, Horace

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.