Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Eliot, George

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Proverb, German

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