Motivational Quotes

Action

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Action

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

Shakespeare, William

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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Liter, James

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Saying, Zen

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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