Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Einstein, Albert

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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.

10.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

11.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Do it now. Then it's done.

19.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

20.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

21.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Batt, Al

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

31.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Plutarch

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lu Xun

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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

40.

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

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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.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

44.

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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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

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.