Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

10.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Act, don't react!

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Sher, Barbara

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

26.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

33.

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

James, William

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Quarles, Francis

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Shakespeare, William

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

43.

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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

46.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Liter, James

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

Milea, Jinx

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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