Motivational Quotes

Action

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Action

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Saying, Zen

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

Bible

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Act, don't react!

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Grant, Heber J.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.