Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

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

Eliot, George

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Mexican

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.

10.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Eliot, George

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Riley, Pat

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Action is character.

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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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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 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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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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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton