Motivational Quotes

Action

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Best Quotes about Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

18.

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

19.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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

21.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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 doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

29.

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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

31.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

32.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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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.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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