Motivational Quotes

Action

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

Best Quotes about Action

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Shirley, James

11.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Holtz, Lou

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Proverb, German