Motivational Quotes

Action

Action expresses priorities.

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Plutarch

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Shakespeare, William

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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

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

28.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Saying, Zen

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda