Motivational Quotes

Action

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Action

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Milne, A. A.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Shakespeare, William

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

James, William

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 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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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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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

42.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Confucius

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

Bible

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.