Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Dyer, Wayne

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cass, Lewis

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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 successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

43.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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