Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Dyer, Wayne

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

Action is character.

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

Confucius

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

Auerbach, Red

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Einstein, Albert

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's 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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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 common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De