Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Saunders

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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

14.

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

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

20.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

25.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Riley, Pat

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, French

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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